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If you haven’t read Part One of this little two part series, this won’t make a ton of sense. Read it here.
So, yes, this is a marketing blog but bear with me…
Here’s the deal with trading stocks profitably:
- You have to play by the RULES or you lose.
- You do get to make up the RULES.
- However, you don’t get to make them up as you go along.
What I mean here is that there are a million ways to make money trading. Even if you confine yourself to one asset class (ie. stocks) or even a segment (tech stocks), there are endless strategies or ’styles’ that will work.
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If you didn’t read the first post in this two-part series, called Seth Godin Wiffs One go check it out.
Last week, Seth wrote a post that was stupid.
So I wrote a post telling the world why he’s wrong, partly just to say so and partly to setup this post… a blog lesson wrapped in a touch of self-criticism. Here we go.
5 Reasons NOT to write a post like ‘Seth Godin Wiffs One”. [click to continue...]
This post is a perfect example of the kind of post you really want to write, but shouldn’t. Next week, I’ll tell you why this post is a bad idea (despite being stingingly clever, penetratingly well written, and absolutely correct.)
In the meantime, read it and tell me what’s wrong with this post in the comments!
I’m as much of a Godin fan as the next guy. He’s a brilliant thinker and a prolific writer. What’s not to admire?
Today, though, he missed badly… something he rarely does.
In his post Ads Are the New Online Tip Jar, he suggests that readers should ‘pay’ for the free content they consume on blogs by clicking the ads displayed thereon. Also, that if we all started ‘tipping’ writers that way, it would immediately change the economics of the web.
Maybe he ran too quickly to the keyboard after having that thought, because he’s way off base… and I can’t help but imagine he’d have realized it himself with just a moment of reflection.
First, telling folks to click on ads that are paid by the click is to ask them to commit click fraud which is, according to wikipedia, ‘a felony in several jurisdictions‘ including California and the UK.
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Note: This is a recent post from the previous home of this blog, reprinted here because it’s important background stuff. And because part two is coming this week. If you’ve already read it.. sorry for the dup.
As some of you may know, my first ‘real’ career was as a securities trader on Wall Street.
At age 25, before the dot-com bubble began in earnest, I could see that something big was afoot. I’d read about the ’soaring’ Cisco stock price in the SF Chronicle… and Yahoo, which had just gone through IPO. I hadn’t been ‘online’ yet (apart from BBS’s when i was a kid - remember those?), and didn’t yet have an email address. But I remember feeling that a renaissance was beginning and that I wanted to be a part of it.
Unfortunately for me, I had no MBA. I didn’t even graduate from college. I’d been more interested in traveling the world with my beautiful new girlfriend.
But I needed a way to get involved in what I was reading about each day. Soon, my dad discovered - in Inc. magazine - what would soon become known as ‘day trading’. Over the next couple months, I did my research and packed my bags. I moved to New York and got a seat at [click to continue...]
Ok. I’m not the very most cutting edge dude when it comes to technology and such. I’m no slouch, but I admit that I just opened a Twitter account a couple weeks ago… because our local reporter was tweeting the most up-to-date info about the Gap Fire that had us evacuated from our home for several days. So, I was under duress.
I’ve had a blackberry for a couple years, but just hooked up my email the other day.
I’ve had a Facebook account, but no photo up and no friends ’till just two weeks ago. And despite being hammered from every direction about my dire need to be blogging, I’ve been dragging my heels.
Why so (relatively) slow on the uptake?
Well, it’s because of a lot of things. Let me tell you about some:
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Welcome to the new home/look of The Disciplined Marketer blog!
I got fed up with the ExpressionEngine blog software that I was using - more on that later - so, I’ve jumped ship. This Wordpress situation is going to be much better all around, but there a little work to do to get it up and looking good, so I apologize for the ‘under-construction’ look here for a little bit.
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